Grantmaker Case Studies
The Common Grant Application can be used by grantmakers that manage from a few to thousands of applications per year. It can be used by those that are looking for their first grant management system as well as those looking to replace an existing system. Information in your existing system can be easily moved to the Common Grant Application. For those that have a large investment in an existing system, the Common Grant Application can be used as a front-end to that system to manage the online application, grant and reporting portion of the existing system.Case studies of some grantmakers using the Common Grant Application follow.
The Lawrence Foundation
The Lawrence Foundation is a private family foundation focused on making grants to support environment, human services and other causes. Grants are awarded twice a year. The Lawrence Foundation was established in 2000.By 2005 the foundation was receiving over 400 paper-based applications per year. It was using a small homegrown Access database and Excel spreadsheets to manage its application process. The foundation decided this was taking too much time and energy and looked at online grant management solutions. It found the solutions offered at that time were generally too complicated and expensive for its needs. The foundation custom designed and developed its own online grant management software in 2005 that allowed grantseekers to use a Web browser to apply to the foundation. This solution worked well, but had a number of limitations.
The foundation decided to move to the Common Grant Application in 2007. The data from its proprietary system was exported into an Excel spreadsheet. This information was then mapped and imported into the Common Grant Application. All previous grantseekers were provided accounts with access to the applications they had previously submitted. On a going forward basis the foundation used the Common Grant Application to manage all of its grantmaking process.
See how The Lawrence Foundation links back to the Common Grant Application login and statistics.
See a Common Grant Application profile of The Lawrence Foundation.
Applications
Applications can be paper, online or Web-based.
Paper applications are completed and then mailed or delivered to
the grantmaker. The grantmaker enters the application into their grant management system.
"Online" applications are downloaded from the grantmaker, printed out, completed and then mailed
or delivered to the grantmaker. The grantmaker enters the application into their grant management system.
True online and Web applications are completed entirely from a Web browser. The grantseeker enters the application directly into the grantmakers
grant management system.The Common Grant Application is a true online and Web-based grant management system and can manage all types of applications. Paper-based and "online" applications can be entered by the grantmaker into the system from a Web browser.
Hosting
Grant management systems can be self-hosted by the grantmaker, by a third-party service provider or by the grant management system company.
The Common Grant Application is hosted by the Common Grant Application.
There is no hardware or software to buy, install, maintain or support.It is available from any where and at any time. All you need is a Web browser.
